[peel] Re: 1977 Festive 50 (a billion questions (very slight exaggeration))

[bill.spiby@...]

Thanks chaps. I think that's fairly conclusive then that it would have been the 12" of Dancing the Night Away and the Jamaican release of Uptown Top Ranking (which is quite possibly different mix from UK hit version).

Cheers Bill
> 
> From: Tim Brooks <tb666xx@...>
> Date: 2008/10/22 Wed PM 08:06:32 BST
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [peel] Re: 1977 Festive 50 (a billion questions (very slight exaggeration))
> 
> the uptown top ranking I have is from 77 and is on lightening... also around the same time was a misspelled Prince Fari 'heavy manners' 7"...
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> --- On Wed, 10/22/08, dunelm61 <dunelm@...> wrote:
> 
> > From: dunelm61 <dunelm@...>
> > Subject: [peel] Re: 1977 Festive 50 (a billion questions (very slight exaggeration))
> > To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 7:59 PM
> > Peel always played the 12" version of Dancing The Night
> > Away, which has 
> > a lengthy guitar intro before the riff comes in and is
> > around six and a 
> > half minutes in total. I don't recall him ever playing
> > the 7" version.
> > 
> > Althea & Donna's Uptown Top Ranking would have been
> > the 7" single 
> > produced by Joe Gibbs on Lightning Records - unusual for a
> > reggae 
> > single in that - as far as I know - there was no 12"
> > release. And the 
> > record that charted the following year may have been a
> > rerecorded 
> > version.
> > 
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